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The Rosenwald School project built more than 5,000 schools, shops, and teacher homes in the United States primarily for the education of African-American children in the South during the early 20th century. The project was the product of the partnership of Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish-American clothier who became part-owner and president of Sears ...
List of Rosenwald schools. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. This is a list of some of the 5,000 Rosenwald Schools built across the South from Texas to Virginia and from Florida to Oklahoma. There once were 5,000 or so Rosenwald Schools in the United States, primarily serving Black Americans. At least 58 of these schools are listed on ...
The Rosenwald Schools story is crucial to the modern success of the United States, and showing how different groups working together to create a better society when those in power did not want to ...
The Rosenwald Fund (also known as the Rosenwald Foundation, the Julius Rosenwald Fund, and the Julius Rosenwald Foundation) was established in 1917 by Julius Rosenwald and his family for "the well-being of mankind." Rosenwald became part-owner of Sears, Roebuck and Company in 1895, serving as its president from 1908 to 1922, and chairman of its ...
Rosenwald, his nonprofit, The Rosenwald Fund, and members of the Black community raised funding for the construction of more than 5,000 schools, teacher homes and shops between 1912 and 1932 ...
Rosenwald schools in Maryland. San Domingo Community and Cultural Center Feb. 25, 2022, in Mardela Springs, Maryland. “In the state of Maryland, between 1918 and 1932, 156 schoolhouses were ...
Rosenwald Elementary School - Became Carroll-Rosenwald Specialty School after Carroll moved to this school. Betsy Ross Elementary School - Closed in 2013. Martin Ryerson Elementary School - Closed in 2013, with Ward Elementary School moving into its building and with the Ryerson and Ward populations merged.
Rosenwald schools in South Carolina (11 P) T. Rosenwald schools in Tennessee (8 P) Rosenwald schools in Texas (2 P) V. Rosenwald schools in Virginia (1 C ...